![]() Simon & Schuster Megan Mayhew Bergman lives on a farm in southern Vermont. And when many of them weren’t, I knew it was to bring these almost famous women back into a contemporary conversation." And for a while, I tested, in conversation with friends, and other members of the literary community, and I wanted to know if they were aware of these women. There have been some great biographies written about these women, but many of them are out of print. ![]() ![]() "I didn’t want these stories and these sacrifices and these risks to go unnoticed any longer. On resurfacing the women's fading histories These were strong, unusual women who lived at the fringes of society: a motorcycle riding trickster, a boat racing heiress, a feisty aging painter and an all-female multi-racial swing band. ![]() In the book, Bergman fictionalizes the stories of real women whom history has forgotten. Women are a larger part of the labor force than ever before in the U.S., but society is still not always kind to women who step out of the boundaries of what's considered acceptable. That's one reason Vermont author Megan Mayhew Bergman wrote her new book of short stories, Almost Famous Women. ![]()
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